I remember working as a bagger/stock boy at a grocery store. Other guys
were content to goof off in a storage room and let me do all the work.
I was never angry at them, just confused because I couldn't understand
their attitude towards work. Now I get angry when I have to pick up
after other people. The difference isn't in the young whippersnappers,
it's that I've grown up to be an a-hole.
In my opinion, the top traits that will make a person successful are these:
1. The willingness to look at your own work and say, "I can do this
better next time."
2. Willingness to look at an unfamiliar problem and say "I've got the
ball, I will figure out how to solve this."
They both boil down to attitude. I don't know how such attitudes are
learned, but schools need to figure out how to teach it. Kids will do
the bare minimum at every other subject if they don't somehow get the
attitude right. When the bare minimum is good enough at school then
that's what they'll do the rest of their life.
Just one a-hole's opinion.
-Adam
On 12/14/2020 11:02 AM, Nate Burke wrote:
I'm getting tired of what is either bad data, or people just not
caring about their jobs. To quote Moss 'I've sent an email, it's
fine...' Not bothering to go beyond their first google result and
calling it good. Why can't people take pride in their jobs anymore?
Dunn and Bradstreet has the contact for our company listed as someone
who has never worked here, and they want to charge us to update their
info. Circular file cabinet for anything from them.
Paypal just called looking for someone who has never worked here.
A police department in Massachusetts (we are in Illinois) Left us a
voicemail asking us to remove our vehicle from their street. He left
me the VIN and Registration number of the vehicle, but did not leave
an area code with his callback number, he Blocked his CID. I had to
get the RPID info from our phone provider to track down his department
to tell them that we're not who he's looking for. Why did he not
actually start with the vehicle registration info instead of googling
for the name that was on the side of the van and calling the first
result? i fell like the police would have access to that data.
The FBI emailed me a Subpoena for ip address records for IP addresses
that was not ours, but another company with a similar sounding name.
Not to mention companies applying payments to wrong circuits, so 1
circuit has a 5 month credit on it, and they shut a 2nd circuit off
for non-payment with no letters or calls.
I was talking to someone in the airline industry, they said the
biggest problem they have with new employees is perfection. The new
employee will say 'it's fine, it works 95% of the time' to which they
have to be reminded that someone will die if that 5% comes up.
And don't get be started on how Bloated all software is now.
I guess I'm just getting too old and curmudgeonly and these young
whippersnappers just don't understand what doing a good job is.
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